Re: Printing Anaglyph 3-D

[P3D <DavidH8083@xxxxxxx>]

>Sam Wang >> has anyone printed 3D images from Photoshop 
>to a color printer...?  ... it should be easy to make 
>pretty good hardcopies that require only red/green or
>red/blue glasses to see. ...
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I am ashamed to say that though I have easy access to a very expensive Canon
CLC700 color laser printer at our office, I have never tried to print out my
anaglyph images.  For the past couple of years, I have created the anaglyph
images from my stereo pairs as little 3-D slide shows for computer monitors.
 Generally, I put about six anaglyph shots (assembled in Adobe PhotoShop)  on
a floppy with a little "slide show application."  That way, the people I send
the floppy to just double-click on the application which then "plays" the
images, slowly lap dissolving from one to the other.

OK! So, then this morning, I printed out a few 3-D images on the CLC700.  And
the results are superb.  The overlap areas are a nice, slightly warm, grey,
and the red and cyan areas seem to work well with the old STARLOG Fantastic
3-D anaglyph viewers that I had made up about 15 years ago. I do keep my
anaglyphs tuned to pretty low contrast, I find that helps viewablity quite a
lot.

I have decided to post a 3-D image of the week on our little office bulletin
board with an attached pair of red/cyan glasses for coffee break viewing.
 The CLC 700 in our office has been tweaked to output images that match a
SWOP standard Matchprint -- we use the CLC for soft digital proofs of
magazine layout pages -- so I have no idea what a run-of-the-mill
uncalibrated CLC would turn out.

David Hutchison
STARLOG Magazine
davidh8083@xxxxxxx


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